Parachute



April 22, 1930. 5 M. G. GLDIEDE ET AL 1,755,954

PARACHUTE Filed Nov. 17, 1927 INVENTORSI 772.66aec7e ma JCufL'n BY WMWZAK" A TTORNEYS.

Patented Apr. 22, 1930 :EU E STATES rarer QFFHCE V MANUEL GAR-ore etinnn AND JACOBO cumin, or TUCUMAN', ARGENTINA PARACHUTE Application filed November 17, 1927, Serial No. 234,012, and in Argentina October 5, 1927.

The present invention has reference to parachutes and has for its object to provide an arrangement for carrying a parachute and facilitating itsworking, so as to insure the automatic and instantaneous opening of .the parachute with absolute security.

he invention consists essentially in placing the parachute, folded in a suitable manner, inside a tube which is open at the end from which the'parachute falls. This tube is fixed underneath the aeroplane, or in any other suitable place, by means of a support which allows it to oscillate. The top end of the folded parachute carries a ring which '2 isretained by a spring in the top end of the tube, and can only be released by a strong pull thereon. v

The other end of the parachute, to which are attached the cords, has another ring, to which is attached the cord fastened to the body of the aviator.

A light fastening is used to attach this ring to the lower end of the tube in such a manner as to prevent the parachute from falling out when not intended. When the aviator pulls on this string it breaks, and the parachute is released from the tube in a mannerwhich facilitates its opening.

In order that the invention may be more easily understood, a drawing is attached to the present specification, illustrating one convenient form of the invention:

. Fig. 1 1s a side view of the tube containing the parachute.

from the lower end.

In accordance With the first three figures, the apparatus comprises a support 4, affixed to the underbody of the aeroplane. A horizontal axis 5 at the extremity of this support sustains the tube 3 in such a way that it may oscillate, although, normally, the tube is held in a horizontal position by means of the spring 2. The point of oscillation is near the top end of the tube, and the swing of a quartencircle which the tube is able to describe allows it, at the moment it is called into use, to assume a vertical position, thus facilitating the fall of the parachute from the lower end. The top end of the tube is closed by a conical cap 1,in the interior of which is the spring catch 6- in the form of clips, in the fingers of which is held the ring 7 attached to the apex of the parachute 11. "This latter, conveniently folded in the manner shown in Fig. '3, occupies the top end of the tube, and beneath it are coiled the cords 8 which terminate in the ring 10, to which is also attachedth'e cord fastened to the aviator. Through the ring 10 is passed a light fastening '9 attached to the edges of the tube opening, as may be better seen in Fig. 6.

In Fig. i, the tube is shown at 3, and the cord fastened to the aviator at 13. The manner in which the cord runs from the aviator to the apparatus over the aeroplane may be clearly seen. a

Fig. 5 shows an ordinary parachute open, 17 being the material, 16 the upper ring, 18 the sustaining cords, 14 the lower ring and the cord by which the aviator is suspended.

The working of the apparatus is as follows: As soon as the aviator jumps from the machine and the cord attaching him to the parachute tautens, his weight causes the tube to swing down and the light fastening retain- 8 ing the parachute in the tube is broken. The parachuteleaves the tube and takes an elongated form due to the fact that its apex is retained by its top ring until the last moment. When the parachute is completely extended, the pull exerted upon it by the weight of the aviator frees the top ring from the spring clip, and releases the parachute from the aeroplane. 4

Owing to the elongated form which it has taken on leaving the'tube, and being already unfolded, the parachute opens instantaneously, and immediately begins to exert its sustaining action.

The two principal advantages of the apparatus are at once seen. The one is that absolute security in the Working of the parachute is obtained. In fact, its action is automatic, that is to that it does not depend upon the will of the aviator and it is furthermore safe in its action in that it obviates any delay in the unfolding of the apparatus.

' to he moyed to a yert ical position as the-para Theo ther is the immediate opening of the parachute, thus obviating the unpleasantness of a fall through a relatively great space before" the action of 'theparaehute begins to be manifest, as happens when parachutes are carried upon the person of the aviator himself.

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